Coach 360

Mackey and Colton are live in our newest episode of Coach 360 talking about Colonel Craig Flower's idea of tier 1 leadership.

Mackey shares the three questions that get asked of these tier 1 leaders: 1. Can they do it? 2. Will they do it? 3. Will others follow them when they do?

So many times we believe that in order to be the best leader, you have to be the best player on the field, and if you were the best player, then by default, you were the best leader.

In the book, "The Captains Class" Sam Walker unveils that after investigating all the seventeen sports dynasties from the past, the best leaders were not necessarily the best players, they were the glue that held the team together. They were capable, willing, and others followed them.

The best leaders aren't necessarily the best players or the best motivators, they are the players who can do a little bit of it all the best.

Mackey and Colton go on to talk about ways in which coaches can develop their players in certain areas they are lacking to create tier 1 leadership qualities within each of them.

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Twitter: @COLCraigFlowers Horn FM Radio Interview: https://bit.ly/2ry4nXI Life Flip Media: https://bit.ly/2ryQR5t

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This episode is a special one as Colton is live with retired Concordia Chicago's Head Women's Basketball Coach, Rusty Rogers, who was the coach of one of our very own 2W team members.

Coach Rogers shares his story and how his mindset on coaching was changed after the birth of his daughter. He talked about the shift from thinking solely about winning and records to focusing on using basketball as a facilitator for his ministry of creating a sense of confidence and character in his athletes.

Coach shares his coaching philosophy and the idea that being a successful coach means lighting a fire within each player, not lighting a fire beneath them. He also gives practical ways how coaches can navigate a shifting mentality from focusing on records to focusing on lives.

In our latest episode, we are bringing you the latest curriculum video, Tick Tock.

Life is often unpredictable, and you can never know or control what the next day will bring. You can control how you react to whatever the future holds. Even though you can't predict exactly what struggle you will face, you know that some type of struggle is coming. Each day you can prepare for those unknown obstacles by building skills like commitment, determination, and discipline.

Those skills will help you make it through the heat of August and the pressures of the season, and they will help you make it through the unknown struggles that life will throw in your path. Every moment is an opportunity to prepare for the next big event or the next struggle waiting just over the horizon. The clock is ticking.

In our latest episode, Mackey is live at the Leadership Summit encouraging coaches and leaders to be of good character.

Mackey talks about how we can put rings on a finger and records on a wall, but all of those things are temporary and can be taken away at any given moment, but the one thing that cannot be taken away is your character.

As you help raise up the next generation, recognize that they will not learn from words on a paper or bold words painted in the locker room. They will learn from the quiet actions of your life. Winning is a by product of being successful. When you commit to being successful in the little things, success in your life and in who you are, others will see that and that will begin to shape who they are.

Simply talking about it isn't enough, our actions must follow. If we are different in private than we are in public, one day we will be exposed. Your private life will always become your public life.

In this episode of Coach360, Mackey interview LTC. JC Glick, U.S. Army, Ret. Mackey and LTC. Glick dive deep into the difference between capacity and capability, the power of teaching athletes "how to think" not just "what to think", and the importance of disciplined, nuanced thinking.

JC served in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer for 20 years, primarily in special operations and special missions units with more than 11 combat tours. Since retiring from the military, JC has brought his innovative and unconventional thoughts on education, leadership and resiliency into the private sector, consulting with Fortune 500 companies, the NFL and professional sports teams including the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers.

JC recently wrote and published the thought-provoking, groundbreaking book titled "A Light in the Darkness: Leadership Development for the Unknown", which has been implemented by major corporations including the NFL and Microsoft and endorsed by leaders in the field of education, business and the military.

Twitter: @JC_Glick

Book: A Light in the Darkness: Leadership Development for Unknown https://www.amazon.com/Light-Darkness-Leadership-Development/dp/0998848506

Podcast: LeadershipStrikeGroup.com

LinkedIn: JC Glick

IG: Bigjc31

YouTube: JC Glick

Mission 22 Website: www.Mission22.com

In our latest episode, Mackey is live at the Leadership Summit encouraging coaches and leaders to stand firm in what they do and who they are.

Mackey talks about how easy it is being so close to the end of the year to want to coast and quit continually pursuing excellence in everything you do. If you are at that place in the year, at the place in your life when you want to give up and quit, stand firm.

Everyone has been in a place where your mind wants to tell you to keep at it and your heart wonders whether it's worth it or not. Mackey takes us through a similar battle he experienced in high school. He did everything right, he was bigger, faster, stronger than everyone else. He was in extracurriculars and had good grades, he did everything in his power to do what was right. Mackey gets a call from a college coach, all his dreams were coming true, and in the first play, playing in front of those coaches for the first time, he injured his knee, his dreams and goals seemed to slip through the very hand he thought he had held his future in. He did everything right, but everything still went wrong.

More than one of you know what that feeling is like, the feeling of continually pursuing excellence, making the right decisions, and everything still seeming to go wrong. Stand firm. You and your dream and everything you have worked for is worth fighting for. There is no shame in your struggle. There is no weakness in asking for help. The greatest demonstration of strength you could have is not pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, but it is peeling open your hands and inviting others into your struggle to help you.

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In our latest #Coach360 episode, Colton is live with Coach Hank Semler from Aldine Senior High School.

Coach Semler talks about the challenges his program faced, not only through the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, but also through different obstacles placed before his team throughout the season.

Throughout the uncertainty of the season, Coach made it a point to create and maintain a mindset that you do not lose in a season, in life, or in a game until you GIVE UP. When you lose at anything it's because you quit trying. That mentality is a recurring theme you can see throughout their season. Each game, every single player fought until the bitter end and gave it everything they had.

In this episode of Coach360, Colton, and Mackey discuss just how damaging lowering your standard can be, the dark side of pride, and the greatest show of strength you can ever display.

The guys speak from the heart on this one, and you won't want to miss out!

Connect with Colton @FullCurlColton and Mackey @MackeySpeaks.

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Herring of Refugio ISD.

Coach talks about the importance of not allowing circumstances to affect your performance, and shares the devastation that Hurricane Harvey had on his town. He talks about putting himself aside and being more than a coach for the athletes by sleeping in cots with them when their home was destroyed, beginning football early to keep them focused on something other than their hurt, and continually being a support system throughout the rebuilding process.

Coach goes on to talk about the fact that as coaches, they were going to allow the athletes to use Harvey as an excuse to not give their best each and every day. The way they had to go about discipline and enforcing rules looked a little different than normal because Coach ensured each athlete put his family first, but his expectations of every single one of them stayed the same.

Because of the coaching staff's attitude, the athletes were given a sense of hope during a time when most of their life felt unsure.